Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life

by ProfessorNigelSouth (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1998

  $256.93

  An overview of drugs and society. Topics addressed include: the debate over prohibition versus legalization; drug and dance cultures; drug use amongst young women; images of race and drugs; the strategy of policing drugs and controlling drug users; and drug control and sport.

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $69.89

  This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of `race' and drugs; medical responses to drugs; policing strategies and controlling drug users; drug control and sport; and the question of prohibition versus liberalization.